Sentence examples for destroy the charm from inspiring English sources
There, applications by two families have residents and environmental groups complaining that the larger docks would destroy the charm of the river and make it more difficult for canoeists and kayakers, forcing them to take a zig-zag course as they try to hug the shore.
Locals have attacked the scheme, being bankrolled by one of Aberdeen's richest businessmen, the oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood, for destroying the charm of the sunken green oasis and creating a Soviet-style civic plaza.
Sitting behind a big desk in his sunlight-filled office next to the harbor, Mr. Henry, dressed in a cap, T-shirt and shorts, said he was less concerned about his own office space than about a big chain store opening downtown and destroying the charm of an old-fashioned village that drew him from his native Minnesota 20 years ago.
He pointed out that the criticism of the scheme was based entirely on assumption that the station would "destroy the Medieval charm of the city", without taking into account the thoughts of the experts who designed the station.
Would the plant destroy the town's charm, and so too its emerging tourist economy, or would the return of big cement be a restoration, a sign that old heavy-industry Hudson is on its way back?
And it has set off a storm of opposition from residents fearful that it would destroy the rakish small-town charm of their community with soaring anodyne buildings that block views of the Hollywood Hills (and its iconic sign) and overwhelm streets with traffic.
As in the Kwâbgâh, the fragments which remain have been covered with varnish as a preservative, which has had the effect of destroying all the charm of colour they once possessed; and will eventually, when the varnish turns brown with age, obliterate them altogether.
Where Sophocles's heroine uses a magic charm to regain her husband's love, Crimp's Amelia dispatches a pillow-encased chemical weapon to destroy the general.
People in ordinary-size houses complain that McMansions, as they usually call them, are crass and ungainly and stick out awkwardly, destroying the neighborhood's charm.
